Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
Post-Game Interview
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BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Senior shortstop Amanda Vaudreuil paced an offensive barrage of 24 runs on 26 hits as the University of New England took two games from Gordon College (9-1, 13-0) in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) softball action Friday afternoon (Apr. 11) at Claude Dubois Field.

Winners of 10 in the last 11, Big Blue now stands at 19-9 overall and 9-3 in league contests. The Fighting Scots, who have fallen to UNE in 14 consecutive meetings, drop to 6-16 on the year (4-8 CCC).

Vaudreuil went 6-for-6 over the doubleheader, including her fifth four-hit game of the season. She now has more doubles this season (16) than any UNE player in over 20 years, after picking up one in each outing.

Senior Ali Stanley and junior Adrienne Chase each had three hits in four at-bats on the afternoon. Graduate student Allie Frazier and first-year Kalie Hernandez totaled five RBI apiece, and sophomore Jess Lemos added three more. A trio of players each crossed the plate three times for the Nor'easters -- senior Jessica Potter, sophomore Meghan Bolano, and first-year Sydney Farley.

Sophomore Abby Lambert and first-year Katelyn Austin did their part in the circle, backed by an errorless UNE defensive in the field. The combined to allow nine hits and two walks over the 10 innings, while striking out 10.

In game one, Big Blue notched three in the bottom of the 1st inning and never looked back. Singles by Vaudreuil and sophomore Amanda Vallante started the frame, and the pair stood on second and third with two out. Lambert helped her own cause with an RBI-single up the middle, scoring Vaudreuil, and Vallante took advantage of an errant throw amidst a rundown to make it 2-0. Lambert, who ended up at third base on the play, later scored on a wild pitch.

The Nor'easters tacked on five in the 3rd to build an eight-run cushion. Potter put a one-out double to center, scoring sophomore Kelly Murphy. Chase and Potter came around moments later when Lemos tripled to the fence in center. Frazier followed with her second home run of the year, dropping one over the wall just left of straightaway center.

Gordon tallied its only run of the day in the top of the 5th, when a two-out single by junior Rachel Ryder plated classmate Gabriel Roberts, who had led-off the inning with a double to left.

But Vaudreuil ended things in the bottom of the frame with a rocket down off third base that scored Farley, who had reached with a two-out double to right field.

Lambert struck out six against no walks and six hits to improve to 7-4.

Scoring came early and often for UNE in game two, as 11 batters came to the plate in the last half of the 1st and resulted in seven runs. It was already 1-0 when Hernandez sent a bases-loaded single up the middle to drive in two. Stanley singled to center to fill them again, before Frazier cleared the bases on a double into the gap in right-center. Vaudreuil capped the inning with her second hit of the stanza to knock in Frazier.

The margin was 8-0 with one out in the 2nd when Hernandez drove another single up the middle that plated both runners on base. Lemos followed three batters later with an RBI-single down the line in left to extend the lead to 11-0.

In the bottom of the 3rd, the Nor'easters registered run number 13 on the second hit of the game by first-year Paige Moore-Haskell.

Austin (5-2) fanned four while surrendering just three hits and a pair of free passes.

Over the doubleheader, Fighting Scots senior Kendall Bukuras accounted for four of her team's hits. Classmate Skylar Bareford took the loss in both contests.

Big Blue will head for Curry College on Saturday (1 p.m.) for a fourth straight day of action. Gordon visits Roger Williams University for a 12 p.m. start.


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